[Hoot Gibson]

Yeah I've never understood nor ever will understand that when something like this happens, people love to make this political, just like one of the above comments. How about we just focus on the tragedy at hand, innocent people were seriously injured, and killed, due to this. It's sad enough the victims families will have to start a new year, and every year without their loved ones, and somehow this has everything to do with Trump or Biden? Gimme a break, idc what side of the fence you're on when it comes to political affiliations, I don't have the answers as to how to stop this non-sense, I'm no expert on these matters, and all I see is "how about we stop offering thoughts & prayers and actually step up and do something to stop this", well if there was something more that I could do, I surely would try my best, but all I have is my thoughts, prayers and condolences to those families who lost loved ones, and to those still fighting.

Not trying to stir the pot with debate or argument here, maybe just some common sense which is severely lacked now a days, it's  just sad and tragic as to what has happened, I sure hope not but I have a feeling more incidents will happen across the Country as time goes on, just hunker down and stay safe out there.

I agree that terrorist attacks should not involve politics. Unfortunately, there are undeniably political factors that must be considered not only for the New Orleans and Las Vegas incidents but also for the many likely terrorist attacks that will follow.

For the past four years, the already politicized Department of Justice, Homeland Security, CIA, and FBI have been injected with an even heavier dose of political activism. For our national security, all of these agencies must be nonpartisan. The most unfortunate appointment of the Biden presidency was Alejandro Mayorkas as the Secretary of Homeland Security. On Mayorkas's watch, an estimated 8 to 10 million illegal aliens crossed our borders and entered this country. DHS has no idea how many non-Latin Americans were included in the total number. It only took 19 individual Muslim radicals to launch successful attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11. The likely number of sleeper cells hiding among us today is staggering.

Another factor that will make thwarting terror attacks very difficult is the fact that on many American college campuses, there are large numbers of students actively supporting terrorist organizations like Hamas.

It will take time to remove and replace federal employees who are directly responsible for our vulnerable position but it must be done to restore professionalism and competence to the agencies responsible for our national security. Until then, the FBI and Homeland Security are going to spend much more time investigating terror attacks than they will spend preventing attacks.